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David Horowitz explains the current situation with mobs and racism. 5 minute video. If you like it, you can get his new book too: Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win.
George Reisman says college educated people deserve refunds in Tuition Refunds for Today's Uneducated Graduates.
Project Veritas did more investigative journalism. Video: Another Facebook Insider Details Political Censorship; Current HR Exec 'No One Has White Man’s Back’.
Political video: Tucker Carlson: Can the left lead a country they hate?
Video: The Truth About Sexless Relationships. Some (mostly) common sense. I found it via a quarantined subreddit because the rulers of the internet hate common sense and want to deplatform it.
The Protests and Riots
Bruce Thornton compares today’s riots and culture with the 60s and explains the connection in Sowing the Sixties Winds, Reaping Today’s Whirlwind. A commenter partially disagrees:
The author has a selective memory. In the 30s, the Red Decade, all intellectuals were socialists. There was a slight revival of free market thought in the post-war period due to the reaction of the mass slaughter and oppression of both national and international socialism. But socialism was long accepted before. Socialism in the UK came in the early 20th century before the sexual revolution and rejection of religion. The last major widely-read pro-capitalist thinker was Herbert Spencer. Even John Stuart Mill ended his life as a socialist and couldn't understand why Spencer was[still] a holdout. The rot began far before the 60s.
Some major problems must have existed significantly before the New Deal in the 30s (big things like the New Deal don’t happen overnight). But the issue isn’t just anti-capitalism, it’s more broadly the attempt to destroy many major traditions of Western Civilization.
What are the traditions of Western Civilization? Thornton, the article author, wrote a book on that which I like: Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization.
Anti-Semitism
Canary Mission put together a video of clips of right-wing anti-semitism from Rick Wiles. The left may currently be leading the charge on anti-semitism with e.g. BDS and electing Ilhan Omar, but it’s a real problem in some right-wing subgroups too. The clips are horrible, especially when you consider that he’s found enough of an audience to do this for over 20 years.
BTW, Canary Mission sent out the video previously with a YouTube link, but, when I clicked, YouTube said it was removed for containing hate speech. Apparently you can’t expose public figure haters with clips of their published hate speech when you’re an anti-hate organization, otherwise YouTube might deplatform you. YouTube is awful at deciding what to censor.
I think some of the current attacks on hate speech are exaggerated and start witch hunts, and there’s an attempt to suppress speech people disagree with as “hate”. But haters do exist and I think disagreeing with them and quoting them is fair, especially when they are e.g. radio hosts spreading their hate publicly as their job. Similarly, I think it’s completely fair to quote and criticize hateful statements from a published book.
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